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Dr Helen Kerr

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Dr Helen Kerr

School of Nursing and Midwifery

Dr Kerr's research interests are in the broad field of oncology and palliative care. The main focus of recently completed research is the transition from children's to adult services for young adults with life-limiting conditions.

Current research is focused on the acceptability and usefulness of a Healthcare Passport to young people with life-limiting conditions. Further research relates to exploring the use of mobile spaced learning as a digital platform in teaching symptom management in the undergraduate nursing programme.

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  • h.kerr@qub.ac.uk
  • +44 (0)28 9097 5810
  • @kerr03

Research Interests

Open to PhD applications in the field of:

  • Interventions and evaluations to improve the transition from children’s to adult services;
  • Psychological aspect of care in oncology and palliative care nursing;
  • Role of the Clinical Nurse Specialist in Oncology;
  • Educational interventions for teaching oncology and palliative care nursing. 

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Public outreach & key achievements

  • 2019: Secured Burdett Trust for Nursing small grant award

  • 2018: Successful team application for the Martha McMenamin Scholarship

  • 2017: Winner of the International Journal of Palliative Nursing 'Researcher of the Year' award.

  • 2016-2017: Awarded competitive national Florence Nightingale Foundation Travel Scholarship.

  • 2016-2017: Led in the organisation and delivery of an all-Ireland ‘Transition Workshop’ for service users and service providers in 2016. 

  • 2016: Royal College of Nursing Northern Ireland Nurse Researcher of the Year, runner up.

  • 2015: International collaboration with researchers at the University of Toronto and

    clinicians at the SickKids Children’s Hospital, Toronto on the transition from children’s to adult services.

Research students

MSc Title Is there a discordance between actual prognosis and prognostic awareness in patients with advanced cancer?
Name Sara Mone
Year of Study 2017-2018
Country  Northern Ireland 
   

 

 


Alumni: Where are they now

MSc Title To explore the perspective of patients with a diagnosis of serious and enduring mental illness in relation to their physical health 
Name Paula Maguire 
Year of Study Completed Masters in Nursing in 2015 
Country  Northern Ireland 
   
MSc Title Nurses responses to terminal restlessness in the last 48 hours of a palliative care patients life 
Name  Ruth Neville 
Year of Study Completed Masters in Nursing in 2012 
Country Northern Ireland 
   

 

 


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